You must be over 16 to play.  When we have your completed membership application, we enter your details onto our lottery system. You will be sent a membership card and details of your lucky number. Each Friday the winners are randomly selected from all our paying members.

Each ‘chance’ in our lottery costs £1 and you can have more than one ‘chance’ each week if you wish.

When you pay £1 to play our lottery, 75p of this goes directly to the charity.

We’re really proud of this figure. We can’t avoid having to spend money to fundraise more, but we work hard to make sure that running, promoting and staffing our lottery costs as little as possible.

In fact, the lottery makes 45% of our overall fundraising. The law states that at least 20p of every £1 raised on lotteries should be returned to the charity, so we’re extremely pleased we’re heads and shoulders above this!

Here’s exactly how your weekly £1 lottery entry gets spent:

How we get to our figures:

The overall amount returned is the official amount returned as per our Gambling Commission return documents for 2017.

The spend breakdown percentages shown in the chart are an average of our monthly spend from the last 3 available financial reports (March 2018 to May 2018), which is why they are slightly different with a higher amount donated to the charity. Figures accurate as of 11 July 2018.

There is no need to make a claim as we automatically send out all the winners’ cheques by 1st class post on Friday afternoons. A list of winners is published on our website and in some local papers.

Please download the rules and terms and conditions, take a look at the responsible gambling policy, and our money laundering policy.